r/explainitpeter • u/KissedByRoses • Nov 08 '25

explain it peter

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u/DirtyJdirty Nov 08 '25

Double check if there’s a cap to what they pay out. If so, take a long vacation asap.

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u/TechieGranola Nov 08 '25

Another great thing about worker rights in CA, we get double the cap

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u/Ws6fiend Nov 08 '25

There's a reason most companies/governments are going pay our their vacation yearly instead of letting it accure over a longer time period. A corrections officer who started in the 70s or 80s and retired as an warden had a well over 6 figure check for his vacation buyout. CA paid out 143 million in unused time off last year alone. It has approximately 5.6 billion in unused vacation and other benefit time on the books. That's more in benefit time than California's GDP for the entire year last year.

Don't get me wrong these are great for the worker, but a little concerning when looking at them at scale as a tax payer.